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Pewdiepie may be late to the Bitconnect bashing party, but heâs made up for it in a searing 15-minute sketch. âFinally I can quit making Youtube videos, this is the answer BITCONEEEEEECT!â the worldâs most popular Youtuber cries to his 60 million subscribers. In âHow I Made My Millions! (and so can you)â, Pewdiepie also takes aim at the Youtubers who were responsible for promoting the cryptocurrency.
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Bitconnect Gets the Pewdiepie Treatment
âItâs a great meme,â begins Pewdiepie, acknowledging Carlosâ Bitconnect scream that has been parodied and remixed countless times. Mocking Bitconnect has been fashionable for some time now, and as Pewdiepie concedes heâs âthe last one to the memeâ. The sketch opens with a montage of various Youtubers who were pivotal in driving Bitconnectâs pyramid scheme. When the house of cards collapsed, the videos were hastily deleted but not before they had been saved and re-uploaded by users, because the internet never forgets.
âThe thing about cryptocurrency is everyoneâs just shilling it for their own benefit so who can you really trust?â ponders Pewdiepie before proposing his own Brofist Coin. Thereâs not much to be gleaned from Pewdiepieâs latest video in terms of how the Bitconnect scam unfolded; the Swedish vlogger is more interested in goofing around and interspersing clips of Carlos with his own attempts at the Bitconnect scream. He does succeed in pointing out the ridiculousness of the scheme, however, and expresses incredulity that people were seduced by it.
Too Little, Too Late
Itâs a shame Pewdiepie hadnât caught on to Bitconnect earlier. If he had, his influence may have helped steer some people away from it. For the millions who watch Pewdiepieâs channel, this introduction to cryptocurrency will not have been a particularly positive one; theyâre not to know that most cryptocurrencies are nothing like Bitconnect. The crypto Youtube community could use its own Pewdiepie to make light of the more ridiculous aspects of the space and point out suspected scams. Pewdiepie isnât the most intellectual of Youtubers, but heâs the perfect buffoon for highlighting the buffoonery of Bitconnect and all who sailed on her.
Who are your favorite crypto Youtubers and what do you make of Pewdiepieâs Bitconnect sketch? Let us know in the comments section below.
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